64 Turkish bar associations condemn the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who was sentenced to more than four years in prison for "threatening" Erdogan (SCF/Stockholm Center for Freedom)
https://stockholmcf.org/64-bar-associa

64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression - Stockholm Center for Freedom
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and warning that journalism cannot be criminalized. The statement came after a court sentenced Altaylı to four years, two months in prison for allegedly “threatening” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in remarks he […]

He has labored in the fields every summer and on weekends during the school year since he was 11 years old to help his mother, who also picks berries.
His siblings, uncles and cousins — four of them minors — work in local strawberry fields.
Jose said that some days he didn’t fill many boxes and earned less than minimum wage for the hours he worked,
Awhich would be a violation of state child labor laws.
He described toiling under the hot sun in fields where employers f…

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

IN 2026, The leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs.
A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a period of rising prices, no matter what the cause.
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm inc…

Source: BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team launched in 2013 to focus on social media, impacting four jobs, part of broader cuts (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/bbc-news-closes-bbc-trending-1236698116/
<…

BBC News Closes Social Media Investigations Unit After 13 Years
BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism unit tasked with shedding light on the darker side of social media.

I just looked at the first commit for Kitten (then called NodeKit) from *four years ago* and, boy, has it come a long way since then :)
Four years ago: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/commit/d8b59a8d9fc5625f510205b3f4fa798aedc57832
Today:

Initial add · d8b59a8d9f
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results - Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing: #DarkEnergy come together in a single experiment for the first time. Also Dark Energy Survey - DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14864. And CosmoSlider - An educational tool for cosmology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16919

From the comments: “World leaders now know that Trump’s word means nothing and that no member of his administration can be trusted. They also know that even if 2028 ends the current nightmare, America will always be just four years away from electing someone of his ilk. For that reason, they should count this as a permanent rupture.”
Opinion | We Don’t Need Greenland. We Need Allies. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/OAzIw

🤯 45 km in FOUR years – THE REAL SPEED of PUTIN'S ARMY'S advance #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/km-in-four-years-the.html

A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M in illegal transactions (Miles J. Herszenhorn/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers,
--Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound,
--Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years,
--SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal,
--USBP is massively surveilling Americans,
--Trump to preempt state AI …

The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers
Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound, Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years, SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal, USBP is massively surveilling Americans, Trump to preempt state AI safety laws, Eternidade Stealer gets more aggressive in Brazil, much more

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy4y3VDpS0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoiding disposal fees after shopping. In response, Narita Airport is testing solutions such as clothing compression machines to help travelers save space and avoid buying new luggage. Retailers and repair businesses are also encouraging reuse through free take-back and resale programs, aiming to reduce waste and promote more sustainable travel habits."
49 likes, 0 comments - japandaily_jp on January 21, 2026: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoid…

Over the past four years, hedge funds have doubled their footprint in the U.S. debt market,
making the Cayman Islands
— where many hedge funds are officially based
— the place where the most U.S. debt outside the United States is held, according to the Fed.
Typically, people flock to Treasuries for safety in times of crisis.
Yet, driven in large part by hedge fund activity, the Treasury market went through unusual turbulence during recent shocks -- including th…

Opinion | America’s Debt Problem Is Worse Than You’ve Heard
The size of the national debt matters. But so does who America’s lenders are — and that is changing.

A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

"Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years"
#Norway #Environment #Oceans

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years
Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licenses to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the "nail in the coffin" of the plans.

When Trump began his second term, conventional wisdom held that the resistance was moribund.
If that was ever true, it’s certainly not anymore.
This year has seen some of the largest street protests in American history.
Amanda Litman, a founder of Run for Something, a group that trains young progressives to seek local office, told me that since the 2024 election, it has seen more sign-ups than in all of Trump’s first four years.
Just this month, the Republican-domi…

Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.

Source: Greenoaks, one of Brex's top investors, will return twice its investment after Capital One's Brex acquisition for $5.15B in a half-cash, half-stock deal (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exit-brex-investors-rising-zombie…

An Exit for Brex Investors; Rising Zombie Funds
Brex’s $5.15 billion agreement to sell to Capital One isn’t the kind of exit employees or investors would have dreamed of four years ago, when it was valued privately at $12.3 billion. But it appears to be a good enough ending to the corporate credit card startup’s run as a private company.For ...

Memo: Sydney Morning Herald Editor Bevan Shields resigns after four years to "focus on my health", to be replaced by Chief Reporter Jordan Baker early in 2026 (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...

Trotz stark gesunkener Kosten für #Solarenergie plant die Türkei, bis 2030 rund 8,7 Milliarden US-Dollar in inländischen #Kohlekraftwerke zu verschwenden.
Diese Förderung liegt deutlich über den tatsächlichen

$8.7 billion coal subsidy contradicts Türkiye's renewable goals | Ember
Redirecting the $8.7 billion allocated for coal over four years to modernising the grid could enable new capacity for wind and solar investments in Türkiye.

Amazing how many people are really convinced that "following the news" is a real thing that has impact. What have you done with that information? Voted once every four years in a state that gives all its electoral votes to the other party, perhaps? Put the phone down and go outside

I would love to post more often but just can't post happy / interesting stuff with this moron in the office of US president and the shit that he is pulling off. The country is run by a large collection of grifters and complete imbeciles and so far there is no way out of this... at best it will be full four years of idiocy but you know they won't stop there. Sigh, sometimes you wonder what to do. #USpol

Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

"Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Four-year testing finds heat pumps run efficiently even in older homes
Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have tested various types of heat pumps in existing buildings across Germany over four years, finding that the systems achieved seasonal performance factors between 2.6 and 5.4. The team also showed that PV-driven heat pumps can boost self-consumption rates, particularly when paired with battery storage.

"A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an “evil twin” WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.…

Man behind in-flight Evil Twin WiFi attacks gets 7 years in prison
A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an "evil twin" WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers at various airports across Australia.

"The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Seahawks, OT Charles Cross agree to multiyear extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6940469/2026/01/04/seahawks-charles-cross-contract-extension-4-years/

Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models (Max Hunder/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defens…

Timeless wisdom.
Bob Weir's 6 principles of rhythm guitar | Guitar World https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/artist-lessons/bob-weir-rhythm-guitar-principles

“We play three to four hours a night or more. I study in real time, 100 gigs a year. That's a great deal of practice”: Bob Weir was the Grateful Dead's anchor – here’s how he boiled down 60 years of rhythm guitar wisdom into six essential principles
Often overlooked in guitar circles when compared to bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir was a brilliant rhythm player who blended jazz, folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences into a style that any guitarist would do well to study

From Translink
From Expo 86 to Everyday Essential: SkyTrain Marks 40 Years
For four decades, Metro Vancouver’s driverless trains have helped shape where people live, how they move, and how the region grows
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496

Twenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Still not making a damn adven…

Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related…

40 years after first playing Frogger on my Atari 2600, I only just discovered that you can stay on a log or a turtle as it wraps around the screen. I’d assumed for over four decades that you’d die if you hit the side of the screen.
#frogger #atari2600

♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html

Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may have occurred on Earth about four billion years ago, producing the first molecular precursors for the emergence of life.

the rise and fall of stackoverflow
the graph of posts per month is quite something
the decline over the last four years is almost a mirror of the rise 2008-2012
and they are now down to near zero
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#gr…

Jaret Patterson's First TD in Four Years Gets Chargers to 30-Point Mark vs. Raiders https://www.chargers.com/video/jaret-patterson-highlight-touchdown-vs-raiders-week-13-205

In 1968, following the success of his role in "Mary Poppins" four years earlier, Dick Van Dyke was asked by the producer of the 007 films, Alfred R. Broccoli, to take over the 007 role from Sean Connery.
Incredulous, Van Dyke responded: “Have you heard my British accent?”

@… Awww. So sorry.
As you requested, here's Izzy. We adopted her in 2020. She had been taken to a high kill shelter in South Carolina with four very young puppies. She had to raise them in the shelter for about 10 weeks, then was spayed and had heartworm treatment. When she came to us, she was terrified of everything. In 5 1/2 years, she's come …

Source: UEFA Champions League media rights sold for €10B over four years, starting in 2027, across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-wins-…

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/ai-cloud-startup-runpod-h…

AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post   | TechCrunch
Their startup journey is a wild example of how if you build it well and the timing is lucky, they will definitely come.

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

For the first time in, uh, over four years, I wrote a blog post:
pandoc-lecturenotes and the Quest for More Efficient Professoring
https://dynalabs.de/mxp/blog/2025-12-29
The post presents pandoc-lecturenotes, a set of

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: Do you know the planet?
BLAKE: I visited it years ago. Spent some time there. It was a penal colony then. Only grade four offenders, allowed visitors, special privileges, that sort of thing.
JENNA: And now?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/152

Four years ago, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court decided that gun laws must be rooted in history in order to comply with the Second Amendment.
But they are not always comfortable with the reality this analysis unearths.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in
"Wolford v. Lopez",
a case about whether states can ban people from carrying concealed firearms on private property without getting the owner’s consent.
Under the Hawai…

The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.

Cowboys' All-Pro: Tyler Booker 'one of the best rookies' I've ever seen https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-all-pro-tyler-booker-one-of-the-best-rookies-i-ve-ever-seen

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

This year's @… special episode of #Drone & #ExperimentalMusic Squeeze into the Long Nights (Drone Accordion V) 🪗 is available online for global liste…

Accordion Noir Radio Playlist 2025-10-29, Squeeze into the Long Nights (Drone Accordion V)
Long time coming gathering works for another episode of drone, experimental and noisy squeezebox to stretch your listening ears! This is a fine set of tones indeed as we did four years in the past …

Packers' Micah Parsons tore ACL vs. Broncos, MRI confirms: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6891657/2025/12/15/micah-parsons-acl-tear-injury-packers/

Much more so than in his first four years in office,
Trump has begun his second term with what amounts to an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major political parties as the foundations of American economic strength.
He has sought to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve,
fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency that collects key economic data,
and cut funding to …

Trump’s First Year Could Have Lasting Economic Consequences
President Trump’s policies have so far done little to change the overall state of the American economy, but economists warn they will ultimately weaken the United States.

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Amol Rajan leaves after almost five years to start his own business in the creator economy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/amol-rajan-to-leave…

Amol Rajan to leave Today programme to start own business
Amol Rajan is leaving the BBC Radio 4 Today programme after four years to build his own company and take part in the creator economy.

Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…

Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years | Common Dreams
"Trump may give himself an A++++ on the economy, but these latest jobs numbers are failing working families."

@… was so into the idea of "the metaverse" only four years ago that he renamed the damn company to "Meta" and now it isn't the next big thing anymore.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115663179089382328

Zohran Mamdani went on a hunger strike with this cab driver in 2021. He drove the NYC mayor to his inauguration four years later | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/zohran-mamdani-taxi-driver-inauguration-b2893746.html

"Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support"
#Indonesia #FossilFuels #Energy

Rise in Chinese off-grid coal plants in Indonesia belies pledge to end fossil fuel support
A surge in the supply of Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants built to supply electricity to Indonesia’s fast-growing nickel mining and processing sector is undermining Beijing’s efforts to dial back support for fossil fuels, a study released Nov. 3 has found. In his speech to the U.N. General Assembly four years ago, China’s president, Xi Jinping, […]

Being Famous Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Scientists Find https://www.404media.co/being-famous-can-shorten-your-lifespan-scientists-find/

Netflix wins rights to a FIFA soccer simulation game, developed by Delphi Interactive and set for release ahead of the 2026 World Cup, for free to Netflix users (Laura Cress/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93w7dp42z2o

Fifa video game to return after four years in Netflix exclusive
The game will be made by Delphi Interactive and released in time for the 2026 World Cup.

Colts to start Philip Rivers vs. Seahawks just days after QB came out of retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-to-start-philip-rivers-vs-seahawks-just-days-after-qb-came-out-of-retirement

Cowboys' All-Pro: Tyler Booker 'one of the best rookies' I've ever seen https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-all-pro-tyler-booker-one-of-the-best-rookies-i-ve-ever-seen

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

"Britain’s 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment

Britain's 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests | Happy Eco News
Britain's largest seed processing center opened in Cheshire to produce seeds for climate-resilient forests. The facility processes four tonnes of seeds annually and can store them for up to 20 years.

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Ex-Raider Henry Ruggs transferred to another Nevada prison https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/ex-raider-henry-ruggs-transferred-to-another-nevada-prison-3592739/

"Study Shows Ban on Bee Killing Pesticides Helps Bird Populations Rebound"
#Birds #Pesticides #Animals

Study Shows Ban on Bee Killing Pesticides Helps Bird Populations Rebound | Happy Eco News
France's ban on bee killing pesticides is working. Bird populations increased 2-3% in four years after the EU restricted neonicotinoids in 2018. This first study showing wildlife recovery proves pesticide bans help birds, bats, and other insect-eating animals bounce back.

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Road warrior: QB Josh Allen leads Bills to comeback win over Jaguars with 3 total TDs https://www.nfl.com/news/road-warrior-qb-josh-allen-leads-bills-to-comeback-win-over-jaguars-with-3-total-tds

Mailbag: Have DC changes caused struggles? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-dc-changes-caused-struggles

CNN host Christiane Amanpour is battling cancer again and urges people to ‘listen to their bodies’
Journalist has spoken about recurrence of ovarian cancer,
four years after initial diagnosis
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a

CNN host Christiane Amanpour battling cancer again and urges people to ‘listen to their bodies’
Journalist has spoken about recurrence of ovarian cancer, four years after initial diagnosis

With Pete Carroll gone, what is Geno Smith’s future with the Raiders? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/with-pete-carroll-gone-what-is-geno-smiths-future-with-the-raiders-3604152/

Mailbag: Have DC changes caused struggles? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-dc-changes-caused-struggles

A rarely seen seven-arm octopus was captured on camera 2,300 feet below the surface in remarkable deep-sea footage.
The species
— formally known as the seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus)
— was recorded by the remotely operated vehicle Ventana, operated by the team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
According to MBARI, the encounter occurred during a recent expedition in Monterey Bay and marks only the fourth time the organisation has observed…

Rarely-Seen Seven-Arm 'Blob' Octopus Filmed by Underwater Camera
These researchers have only filmed the species four times in 40 years.

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-arizona-workers-…

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.
The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.

Cam Newton to return to Carolina for first time since retirement as pregame drummer for Wild Card vs. Rams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-newton-carolina-panthers-pregame-d…

Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

The European Union on Friday
indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe
to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia,
both with Moscow-friendly governments,
can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencies,
the EU blocked the assets until Russia gives up its war on Ukraine
and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years.
EU Cou…

EU set to lock up Russia's frozen assets so Hungary and Slovakia can't veto their use for Ukraine
The European Union is set to lock up Russia’s assets in Europe until Russia ends its war on Ukraine and compensates for the damage. The move expected on Friday would allow EU leaders to decide how to use Russian Central Bank assets to support Ukraine financially and militarily when they hold a summit next week. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán opposes the decision. He has accused the European Commission of “raping European law.” The EU has frozen $247 billion in Russian assets. Most…

Mike McDaniel on Dolphins future: 'I am the coach ... until told otherwise' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6943471/2026/01/05/mike-mcdaniel-dolphins-coach-future/

Trey Hendrickson, Breece Hall among biggest names who could be moved before the NFL's trade deadline https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/trey-hendrickson-breece-hall-among-biggest-names-who-could-be-mo…

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Adm. Rachel Levine,
who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation.
Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health
"and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action."

C.J. Stroud ruled out with concussion, Davis Mills to start for Texans in Week 10 Jaguars showdown

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c-j-str

"In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone"
#Malawi #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone
LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The project was aimed at demonstrating the potential for distributing and maintaining renewable energy in rural Africa. Today, SolarAid says it has installed […]